Secret Avengers

This third volume of Secret Avengers offers a great example of continuing an ongoing story but is a nightmare for those jumping in with just this book and no context. The plot involves robots and other advanced AI that want to thrive in the world. They feel the best way to do this is to infect everyone living with nanobites. The heroes can stop it, but that will kill all of the machines, of which many are their friends. Writer Remender does his best to bring the reader up to speed through dialog, but there are too many moving pieces, and he doesn't succeed in showing a group of heroes who don't like but still respect one another. Illustrator Kuhn provides the art in the first issue in this volume and differs drastically from Scalera, who is responsible for the artwork in the rest of the books. Scalera is a better fit, having more detail and bringing a grittier vision to a dystopian environment.